producer Archives - Raising Films

Mia Xerri Mondragon’s Creative Residency in Cornwall

Hope Dickson Leach — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:11 +0000

Getting a place on Raising Films Creative Residency 2024 was a dream come true! I’d applied in previous years but was beyond excited to have been offered a slightly different residency this year to stay in producer Laura Giles Cornwall Air BnB - and have it all to myself! As an admirer of Laura’s work [...]

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Choosing to make a feature film in lockdown with three kids

Sally Hodgson — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:38:01 +0000

Laura Rees (who participated in Making It Possible 2020) on her decision to do a difficult, stressful and complicated thing at a difficult, stressful and complicated time AKA making a feature film during lockdown... In this piece Laura talks about the power of a community, the balance between parenting and retaining a professional sense [...]

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To shoot, or not to shoot when baby is on the way

Sally Hodgson — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:41:19 +0000

Clare Shields is an independent producer and together with her husband Alex runs Sixty Clicks Productions. The saying ‘it takes a village’ applies so vividly here as Clare and Alex, embarking on their second short narrative film together, faced a decision on timing. Lining up all the elements for production had been a three-year [...]

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Production babies on Irene’s Ghost

Sally Hodgson — Wed, 01 May 2019 15:55:58 +0000

Today (Friday 3 May 2019) is the release day of independent documentary IRENE'S GHOST, directed by Iain Cunningham. To celebrate and mark the release we spoke to Iain about his own experience of parenthood and how the production supported other parents on the film's creative team. Over to Iain... Finding a balance with family [...]

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Marnie Baxter on motherhood and filmmaking

Sally Hodgson — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:27:39 +0000

Marnie Baxter shares her experience of combining acting and working behind the camera on her short film BAD MOTHER, plus the juggling act of balancing parenting with filmmaking and why being a mother adds another dimension to her work. I’ve been lucky. I have a supportive husband who's a hands-on father and lots of [...]

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Parenthood, production and caring for a loved one

Sally Hodgson — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:49:02 +0000

With an established career in film and media, writer and producer Duncan Paveling started a family, discovered Raising Films and during the production of his debut feature MY FERAL HEART provided care for a member of his extended family. We're delighted, in the lead-up to the launch of our WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT [...]

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Testimonial: Laura Giles

Admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:00:47 +0000

I'm not yet a full-time producer, just an aspiring one who has managed to shift her paid work to around the industry rather than outside it. I stupidly started my film-making and parenting journeys within a couple of years of each other - although in some ways that's good as I've never known anything different than [...]

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In Conversation: Ivana and Gillies MacKinnon

So Mayer — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:00:20 +0000

Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish filmmaker and painter currently living in London. His most recent feature film is Whisky Galore (2016), and his award-winning films include Hideous Kinky (1997), Regeneration (1996), and Small Faces (1995), which he wrote with and which was produced by his brother Billy MacKinnon. Ivana MacKinnon is a producer, and the founder of Stray Bear Productions. [...]

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Testimonial: Jennifer Monks and Michelle Eastwood

Admin — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:45:23 +0000

It was a manic Monday in the To Know Him production office – 7 days from the start of principal photography. I was about to go out on a tech recce and I got the text! Michelle (my producing partner) had given birth! It was official – not only was I now the last member [...]

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Sunshine Jackson on founding Amplify Pictures

So Mayer — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:57:02 +0000

I was lucky enough to hang out briefly with the American director Jill Soloway (we share some close friends in LA), and I’ve followed her career with much admiration. One of the things she does on set is have a daily emotional check-in with her crew. This may sound like a small thing, but its implications are enormous. [...]

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